This Paper analyzes support for the use of military force in over 50 countries and 10 historical episodes from 1990 through 2015. Support for using force includes all types of military actions (air strikes, ground troops) for any purpose (intervention in a civil war or support for an ally under threat). The data set for the Paper encompasses over 2000 individual survey questions.
The Paper also analyzes cross-national variation in the magnitude of gender difference in support for using force in a subset of 1000 survey questions from over 50 countries.
The principal finding of the Paper is that overall support and gender difference in support for using force vary considerably according to what I call "universal logics" - factors that affect support regardless of national characteristics or geopolitical context. However, national characteristics also explain a substantial amount of cross national variation in both overall support and gender difference. National power and alliance relationships are the most important of these national characteristics.
